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Ocracoke Lighthouse 2 - Ocracoke, NC, USA
During the American Civil War, Confederate troops dismantled the fourth-order Fresnel lens. Union troops reinstalled the lens in 1864. Fully automated, the lighthouse is the second oldest operating lighthouse in America.
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